Paper ID #9589An Experience with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks in Real-World, Client-Based BME Design CoursesDr. John P Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Puccinelli is an Associate Faculty Associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He began here as student near the start of the UW-BME program and earned his BS, MS, and PhD in BME. He is interested in hands-on instruction – teaching and developing courses related to biomaterials and tissue engineering, as well as design. He was awarded the BMES Student Chapter Teaching Award in 2011 and 2013 and the Polygon Outstanding BME Instructor Award in
Paper ID #8891Biomedical Signal Processing: Designing an Engineering Laboratory CourseUsing Low-Cost Hardware and SoftwareMr. Felipe L. Carvalho, Florida Atlantic University Felipe L. Carvalho is a graduating senior in the Electrical Engineering program at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity (FAU), Boca Raton - FL. At FAU, he is a member of the Innovation Leadership Honors Program and as part of his undergraduate studies, is currently working on his Honors Project ”Biomedical Signal Processing.” Additionally, he is a co-op at BlackBerry, where he works closely with principles of telecom- munications and software testing. He
Paper ID #9737Introduction of Active Learning Techniques Increases Student Learning in aSystems Physiology Laboratory CourseDr. Renata Fortuna Ramos, Rice University Renata Ramos is a lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University, 6100 Main St., Hous- ton, TX 77005; rfr1@rice.edu Page 24.814.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Introduction of Active Learning Techniques Increases Student Learning in a Systems Physiology Laboratory Course
Paper ID #10049Works in Progress: Generating Interest in Biomedical Engineering throughExploration of the Design ProcessDr. Marcia A. Pool, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign At the time of this work, Marcia Pool was an Instructional Laboratory Coordinator in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University; she is now a Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. At Purdue, she oversaw and assessed junior level laboratories, bioinstrumentation and biotransport, developed and implemented sophomore and junior professional development courses, and taught and mentored students in the
learning situations that are familiar to students as the context for virtual science, engineering and technology investigations. He also pro- posed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories. To facilitate these methodologies for academic education, corporate and military training, his company developed new ground-breaking e-learning solutions, as well as relevant assessment and authoring tools. Dr. Cherner holds an MS in Experimental Physics, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science. He published over 90 papers in national and international journals and made dozens presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Cherner has served as a
training in aguided fashion early in the curriculum. In order to effectively teach these important professional, technical, and life-long skills, wedeveloped a new sophomore-level lecture/laboratory course, BME 201, “BiomedicalEngineering Fundamentals and Design.” We offered it for the first time in Spring 2012, and ithas been taught twice so far. The weekly lecture focuses directly on professional skills, andintroduces students to the department’s five areas of study (bioinstrumentation, biomedicalimaging, biomechanics, biomaterials/cellular/tissue engineering, and healthcare systems) throughlectures by faculty in those areas. These lectures were recorded during the first offering so thatthe videos can be viewed outside of class, and the
videos, by the students reading short articles, visiting websites, andother modes of content delivery. Application of the lecture content is done in the classroomusually in small groups in the form of problem solving, laboratory activities (virtual or physical),group learning etc. with guidance by the instructor. The flipped classroom paradigm was firstintroduced 2007 for teaching high school science (1, 2) but has since attracted science andengineering instructors in universities and colleges (3, 4). Among its main benefits, the flippedclassroom enables students to receive the most support when they are working on the mostcognitively demanding tasks. The flipped classroom increases interaction between instructor andstudent and between student
stopping of breathing during sleep (under Prof. Webster supervi- sion). He is also Teacher Assistant for courses in Medical instrumentation design and Bioinstrumenation Laboratory. His research interests are the design of physiological sensing technologies and the signal processing techniques.Prof. John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering John G. Webster received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 1953, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA in 1965 and 1967, respectively. He is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA. In the field of medical
Dr. McCullough was afforded the opportunity to work with Dr. Brian Adams, a well-known hand surgeon. In the summer of 2006, he began a post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, working on orthopaedic biomechanics and physiology cellular imaging laboratories. This provided the opportunity to work with outstanding clinical and research mentors like Drs. Kai-Nan An, Kenton Kauf- man, Gary Sieck, Ann Reed, Harold Kitaoka, as well as others. His research at that time focused on non-invasive imaging of muscle tissue as well as cadaveric studies of the foot and ankle. Dr. McCullough is a faculty member of the first bioengineering program independently housed at a Historically Black College or University and is a part of
Paper ID #9184Works in Progress: Development of a need-based BME design course focusedon current NICU challengesMr. Kyle Steven Martin, University of Virginia Kyle Martin is a graduate student at the University of Virginia in Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler’s laboratory. Kyle’s research is focused on agent-based modeling of skeletal muscle function and fibrosis. He is equally interested in teaching and has been both a TA and co-teacher, as well as attends workshops and seminars concerning teaching methods and academic jobs.Dr. Pamela Marie Norris, University of Virginia Pamela Norris is the Frederick Tracy Morse Professor of
. Page 24.956.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Open-source software in Biomedical Education: from tracking to modeling movementsProject OverviewA curriculum in biomedical engineering requires a set of laboratory experiences which allowstudents to familiarize with a number of medical equipment and simulation software that arecommonly used in the health care industry. Typically, engineering tools such as force plates,electromyography (EMG), and motion capture systems are used to acquire subjects’ data to beused as input for simulation software, so to characterize human movement performance.Movement analysis is a topic of extreme importance to be presented to the
Program is to immerse undergraduates in biomedicalengineering laboratories to conduct cutting-edge diabetes research in an effort to influence theirlong-term interests in science and engineering. The goal of the Summer Program is to bringapproximately 100 diverse, high-achieving, urban rising juniors and seniors to a college campusto learn a variety of STEM-oriented programming, in an effort to influence their long-terminterests in STEM fields and education. The objective of the partnership between the REU Program and the Summer Programfocuses on developing tier-mentorship experiences for both groups. A separate facet of the REUProgram includes mentorship from graduate students who actively contribute to the developmentof the
Paper ID #10294NSFREU Site on Neural Engineering: Aiming at High Research Standards(work in progress)Dr. Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Raquel Perez-Castillejos is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Insti- tute of Technology (NJIT). Her research (www.tissuemodels.net) focuses on the development of tools for cell and tissue biology using micro- and nanotechnologies. Raquel obtained her Ph.D. with the National Center of Microelectronics in Barcelona. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Miniaturized Systems (Univ. S˜ao Paulo, Brasil) and later at
Paper ID #9966Introducing High School Students to Biomedical Engineering through Sum-mer CampsDr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Mansoor Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Cincinnati and Ph.D.in Bioengineering from University of California-Berkeley. Thereafter, he pursued his research interests first as a postdoctoral associate and then as a Mechanical Engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. He has several publications in the areas of microfluidics, chemical and biological sensors and MEMS technology. He is also is passionate about
be coveredin a laboratory course, rather than in a course called statistics. Further comments on this point arein the Discussion. Universities do not all use semester credit hours, but when necessary weconverted a university’s system to a credit hour basis. We did not consider general chemistry,physics, math, or humanities and social sciences, but confined our attention to engineeringcourses as well as biology and organic chemistry, which are less common topics for other types Page 24.1082.3of engineers. For the 2004 data sample, 40 of the 43 programs accredited at the end of 2004 wereevaluated, along with 31 programs that were not
information ismissing. None of these are easily developed in a traditional classroom.We therefore included an additional objective, which is to develop a skill that is often desired ofstudents but the development of which is not supported by lecture or laboratory formats: 4. Explaining, defending, and forming positions on technical matters via oral argument. Page 24.38.2We used the Socratic method enhanced by online assessment and discussion tools to meet theseseemingly disparate objectives.Course structureThere were no lectures; rather, instruction relied entirely on preparation according to a case studygiven to students, and subsequent
Efficacy Factors: An Experience in a Project Based Learning Context. Int. J. Eng. Educ. 29, 752–762 (2013).12. Bingham, A. Student Attitudes to Real-World Projects in An Introductory Statistics Course. Int. Assoc. Stat. Educ. (2010). at 13. Newstetter, W. C., Behravesh, E., Nersessian, N. J. & Fasse, B. B. Design Principles for Problem-Driven Learning Laboratories in Biomedical Engineering Education. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 38, 3257–3267 (2010). Page 24.614.15Supplement A: BME Student-centered Strategies (BSS) SurveySelect a value from a range of 1-Disagree to 5-Agree. 1. I prefer the flipped* class to the
. A major focus of this program is on tiered-mentorship, whereby graduate students alsomentor the undergraduates. In the model of graduate student mentors, the graduate student andundergraduate have periodic meetings with the faculty member to report their progress anddiscuss data/results. Depending on the structure of the laboratory, the undergraduate studenteither works directly with the faculty member or the faculty member assigns a graduate studentto work with the undergraduate student. Under the guidance of the faculty member or facultymember/graduate student, the undergraduate students conduct a research project focused onengineering approaches to study the treatment of diabetes or its complications